Word: lyre
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...book notice on Scollard's "With Reed and Lyre" closes this admirable number...
...London paper states that the choruses composed by Dr. G. A. Macfarren for the recent performances in Greek at Cambridge and Eaton of the "Ajax" of Sophocles are in unison throughout, with accompaniment for harp (representing the lyre), and a small orchestra, reinforced by a drum. The music which the late Sir Sterndale Bennett was writing for the same tragedy is conceived more in the style of Mendelssohn's Greek tragedies ("Antigone" and "OEdipus") than in that adopted by his successor at Cambridge University. Only two pieces, unfortunately, were left complete - the overture and funeral march...
Your instrument 's the lyre, and not "the Bones...
...harp that is always out of tune a habitual lyre...
...blasted lyre? Give several examples...